r/McMansionHell • u/InvestmentOne2002 • 3d ago

Thursday Design Appreciation Castle extension built on regular suburban home.

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u/PWal501 3d ago

A man’s home is his stupid.

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u/CrankyWhiskers 3d ago

The way this made me spit my drink out 🤣

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u/Imaginary-Arugula735 3d ago

Almost sharted

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u/systemfrown 2d ago

In this case it also likely contains drugs.

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u/LurkerPatrol 1d ago

Dumbicile

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u/hmspain 1d ago

Halloween ALREADY?!?

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u/lokey_convo 3d ago

This is what siege weapons are for.

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u/Momik 3d ago

They don’t even have a ditch!

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u/GiftedStrumpet 2d ago

Time to build a trebuchet on top of my accord and commence the siege

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u/HaymakerSlim 2d ago

I need to start investing in companies that make siege weapons. And figure out how to use them.

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u/Muttley-Snickering 1d ago

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u/lokey_convo 1d ago

Asshole castle neighbor: Hey Neighbor, what ya building in your yard there?

Across the street neighbor: Mailbox.

Asshole castle neighbor: Strangest mailbox I've ever seen... doesn't really look to be up to HOA standards either there bud.

Across the street neighbor: [ sawing and hammering intensifies ]

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u/daphodil3000 3d ago

OMG. I literally sprayed pretzel crumbs right out my mouth when I saw this photo. Now my keyboard is gross.

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u/toomanymarbles83 2d ago

Pretending it wasn't before?

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u/Jammasterjr 2d ago

Keyboard cleanup is a breeze with a leaf blower.

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u/Affectionate-Dot437 1d ago

Big Keyboard hates this secret.

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u/kd8qdz 3d ago

"I won't tell anyone if I win the lottery, but there will be signs"

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u/Arch2000 1d ago

I was going to say, when you win the lottery but still live at home with your parents

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u/LukeSkywalkerDog 2d ago

Hahahahaha

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u/ReluctantPhoenician 3d ago

Does it look good? No. But at least people's weird choices of modifications to their houses are fun, and that makes it 1000% better than any McMansion.

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u/DiscombobulatedCrash 3d ago

This is silly enough it works. Anything to break up the monotony of the suburban wasteland

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u/redbucket75 3d ago

100% agree, I love Castle Hat House. Does not qualify as a McMansion, this is... something else lol

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u/XelaNiba 3d ago

This is Don Quixote made manifest. This glorious creation dreams the impossible dream and rages against the dying of the light. I love it.

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u/Born_ina_snowbank 2d ago

Plus you can sit on top of it and tell people to go away or you will taunt them a second time.

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u/diente_de_leon 1d ago

You sons of silly persons!

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u/elpresidente000 3d ago

Yeah I agree, would enjoy having this house in my neighborhood.

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u/PerniciousVim 2d ago

I hope the owners plan to live there forever, not sure this would ever sell.

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u/sidtsloth9 2d ago

I’d buy it

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u/Fireproofspider 1d ago

Yeah, they wouldn't recoup the cost of this quickly, but they'd find buyers

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u/LukeSkywalkerDog 2d ago

Honestly, that is fair enough.

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u/afriendincanada 3d ago

Edmonton!

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u/maeve_314 3d ago

I thought it was in Alberta somewhere!

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u/KelBear25 2d ago

Apparently the story is this used to be a dentist office and he added on the castle as a feature of his dental business. Still not sure what a castle has to do with dental work, bur gets our attention!

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u/ArcticPangolin3 2d ago

'cause when you get a crown, you need to be in a castle!

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u/no_bender 3d ago

Where is HOA Karen when needed?

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u/thrownjunk 3d ago

lol. I’d love it if my neighbors did this. We need more whimsy in our lives.

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u/d_stilgar 3d ago

It's like an uncanny valley, but for architecture. At some point it's so bad, so inexplicable, it somehow becomes okay again. Like, they clearly weren't trying to make something "good." They just did whatever they wanted.

Add all of the costly signals of success into your McMansion of a home for no other reason than to tell others that you've "made it" despite everyone else's home in your subdivision ticking all of the same boxes? That's bad.

Do whatever you want? Buck trends? Smash architectural ideas together in ways that make absolutely no sense, but which you like? Huge props.

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u/Fireproofspider 1d ago

I think anything who would fit with /r/atbge would be a net positive in a neighborhood.

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u/Ro-Ro-Ro-Ro-Rhoda 2d ago

This is HOA Karen's villain origin story.

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u/thecasualcaribou 3d ago

I was going to say. Probably no HOA there, but I might become self governing HOA and have them remove that so we can save people from gouging their eyes out.

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u/SaturnSociety 3d ago

Is this real world?

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u/CharacterPayment8705 3d ago

This makes all the other homes posted here look so so good.

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u/al2o3cr 3d ago

Groverhaus II: Grover Gets Medieval

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u/ChristopheKazoo 3d ago

I mean, would you try to drag siege engines through the Great Dismal Swamp?

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u/long-walk-home-99 3d ago

It looks like it just fell from the sky and landed on this house .

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u/sneeria 2d ago

lol like someone launched a White Castle 😂

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u/ArtisticRiskNew1212 3d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/Unique_Watch2603 3d ago

Bonus second story bouncy house/castle.

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u/dobrodoshli 3d ago

You know, this is what America looks like to me, people doing a thing they want.

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u/LukeSkywalkerDog 2d ago

Yeah, that's what makes it cool.

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u/CanadaYankee 2d ago

Except this house is actually in Canada.

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u/dobrodoshli 22h ago

Ok, what continent is Canada on, smart person? 😉

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u/Curious_Ad_2492 3d ago

This house has been like this for as many years as I can remember. I don’t know if anyone in this whole city knows why.

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u/Jillstraw 3d ago

I have so many questions…

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u/melanie162 3d ago

Like how is the roof even holding that up??

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u/sjmiv 3d ago

I think it's pretty obvious that after he slayed the local dragon a wizard cast a +40 structure spell on the home as a reward.

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u/melanie162 2d ago

🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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u/Jillstraw 3d ago

That is definitely one of the questions haha

Also-did they put it there with a crane or just build it right on top of the other roof?

Also-and this is the big one-WHY???

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u/melanie162 3d ago

I need to see inside pics!!!

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u/Old_timey_brain 3d ago

Can you imagine the divorce contest in court?

The wife gets the house, the husband gets the garage and castle.

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u/LukeSkywalkerDog 2d ago

I believe that would be reasonable.

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u/Beneficial_Eye2619 3d ago

Man it just landed there.

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u/worstpartyever 3d ago

Are we sure this isn’t an inflatable bouncy house?

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u/MarcoEsteban 2d ago

The wind blew it away with children inside like in that Mexican Netflix Soap Opera, except instead of going over the mountain and depositing the girl in the water fall with the Virgin Mary (meanwhile, her father was setting the family's caretaker on fire for supposedly loosening the stakes while drinking on the job), and instead dropping it on a suburban Edmonton 50s ranch. This story sounds far more interesting, tbh.

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u/hobosbindle 3d ago

Looks like an alien ship gravi-beamed that thing right on top like an ice cream scoop

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u/Redditsaves2020 3d ago

"Mom, can I build a fort?"

..."Sure sweetheart, you and your friends play outside I will be home later"

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u/frostedmooseantlers 1d ago

This needs a pair of stockinged legs with red slippers hanging out over the roof of the garage

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u/3to5arebest 1d ago

This has got to be AI

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u/NotAbot2000 3d ago

This has to be photoshopped, no way is this to any code & it is practically overlapping the garage!!

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u/flynnfx 2d ago

This is 100% legit.

I lived about 5 minutes away from it for about a decade.

Also

Also also

The address of the castle house is listed in the first article, and yes, Google Earth and maps has it on it.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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u/astyanaxwasframed 3d ago

Decisions were made

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u/LukeSkywalkerDog 2d ago

"When a Texan fancies he'll take his chances, chances will be taken, that's for sure." - Lyle Lovett. The problem is, these people ain't Texans.

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u/Warm-Ad-9495 3d ago

Knighty knight.

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u/Nutella_Zamboni 3d ago

We have Burger King Castle At Home

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u/loopymcgee 3d ago

Oh that's a tradjedy.

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u/SirenaSmiles 3d ago

Was the owner drunk when building this? Good Lord.

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u/Fudloe 3d ago

I can get behind this. They're intentionally being a dick.

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u/Deep-Distribution779 3d ago

Is it made out of Styrofoam?

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u/VirginiaLuthier 3d ago

"Tell the English pig-dogs we already have a Holy Grail"

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u/Antique_futurist 2d ago

Drunks banging on the door in the middle of the night, looking for square burgers.

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u/Narrow_Objective7275 2d ago

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/sense-of-place-castle-house

This house has been on Reddit a lot

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u/MarcoEsteban 2d ago

I was going to say, I've seen it about 400 times. Still ugly

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u/BaboTron 2d ago

Look at that fucker, lording it over everyone else on the block….

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u/BrownButtBoogers 2d ago

I feel like this was a fuck you to an HOA lol

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u/Brewskidog93 2d ago

Oh Edmonton.

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u/Shankar_0 2d ago

This screams "Fuck the across the street neighbors"

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 1d ago

Check under that castle for a pair of red shoes.

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u/wiskinator 1d ago

Ok this I love. Some woman was like, fuck it. I want a castle, and she built it.

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u/Alohafarms 1d ago

Imagine them coming back from getting some White Castle and finding that a piece of a castle has fallen on their house.

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u/LoquatOk3003 1d ago

"I don't live in my mom's basement! I live in a really cool castle on top of my mom's garage!"

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u/Belt-Fed_240 1d ago

A guy can’t just have a castle? Y’all ain’t gotta be dicks about it.

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u/Purple_Chipmunk_ 1d ago

It looks like a bouncy house blew up there 😂

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u/birdyann 1d ago

That just looks stupid.

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u/speedfile 3d ago

This can't be real.

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u/KelBear25 2d ago

It's real... in Edmonton AB, Lendrum neighborhood

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u/McRando42 3d ago

These people are awesome.

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u/meowser143 3d ago

Uhhh I don’t think I hate it - an attempt was at least made!

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u/barfbutler 3d ago

Lurvely. Maybe it’s a blowup bouncy house?

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u/solvsamorvincet 3d ago

God is dead and it is we who have killed him.

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u/ActiveEducational183 3d ago

That’s not a McMansion.

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u/Bealzebubbles 3d ago

When you need to defend yourself against the King of France but you don't have a large budget.

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u/Mario-OrganHarvester 3d ago

The hoa is gonna go nuts

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u/Nenabobena 3d ago

It’s like they put a bouncy house on the roof.

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u/MouldyBobs 3d ago

Looks like a kids' bounce-house landed on their roof.

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u/RetroGamer87 3d ago

Not as defensible as he thinks it is

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u/prosperosniece 3d ago

I’ll take it

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u/notlitnez2000 3d ago

Is it AI?

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u/HumblestofBears 3d ago

Honestly, hooray for them. This isn’t a McMansion. This is a boss dawg changing his landscape for his will.

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u/elpresidente000 3d ago

I feel like this one’s alright because it’s funny.

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u/stock_sloth 2d ago

Yikes!! I guess he’s going to build a moat around it next

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u/redhairedgal4 2d ago

This is the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet this morning. The day is still young.....

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u/normanbrandoff1 2d ago

My YIMBY beliefs are being tried with this one

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u/Zima2342 2d ago

The neckbeard that must live here...

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u/b9ncountr 2d ago

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a WINNER!!!

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u/Paula92 2d ago

Lady from Napoleon Dynamite voice: "I want that."

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u/emiltsch 2d ago

Thought it was AI

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u/Strange_N_Sorcerous 2d ago

Tacky but not a McMansion.

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u/nanladu 2d ago

So, so bad. Looks like it's a playhouse for the kid.

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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats 2d ago

Looks like a bouncy house blew away in the wind and landed here.

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u/Bigdaddydave530 2d ago

Squidward the sky had a baby

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u/WorriedWar6309 2d ago

It’s like someone air-dropped a White Castle burger joint onto the roof of his garage.

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u/niofalpha 2d ago

Father of the year award. Daughter wanted to be a princess in a castle.

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u/Mallthus2 2d ago

I feel like that’s part of something from a 1930s Southern California building dropped on top of a suburban midwestern house in photoshop.

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u/Jenniwantsitall 2d ago

That thing is god awful

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u/platdujour 2d ago

When a bouncy castle lands on your roof one day, and you think...

"that looks nice, it just needs to be rendered in concrete to finish off the look"

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u/paintinpitchforkred 2d ago

Honestly, obsessed. This is camp as hell.

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u/CherishSlan 2d ago

They need to finish the rest of the house to make it match!

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u/Unable-Arm-448 2d ago

Please tell me this is just some weird photoshopped April Fools joke!

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u/coozin 2d ago

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberry”

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u/Rab_in_AZ 2d ago

McMedivalTimes

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u/viewering 2d ago

I kinda like it

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u/CeeDee304 2d ago

I don’t usually advocate violence, but someone needs to be slapped.

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u/Scarlett-the-01-TJ 2d ago

I’d love to see the house across the street. Who are they trying to piss off with this?

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u/mindurbusiness_thx 2d ago

This may be the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.

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u/That1Chick177 2d ago

Elegant; classy; appealing to the eye. It definitely won’t slide off the roof and crush the vehicles.

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u/MapleTreeSwing 2d ago

This! This is what I come here for!

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u/NOLArtist02 2d ago

Maybe this is why there are HOA’s 😝😳

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u/Original_Spot5786 2d ago

New Jersey?

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u/Dear-Foundation4780 2d ago

your making this up..there is no way lol

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u/LukeSkywalkerDog 2d ago

OK. This is possibly the worst thing I have ever seen in my life.

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u/SapphireGamgee 2d ago

I wish this was just a Photoshop edit, but maaaaan.

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u/jp_trev 2d ago

Yea I’d claim that bedroom

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u/SeeLeavesOnTheTrees 2d ago

Does this good? No.

But are these people enjoying their life? Looks like it.

It actually makes me happy.

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u/Taranchulla 2d ago

Is this the best worst thing ever posted here? It’s certainly the worst thing I’ve seen, and I’ve seen too much.

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u/sidtsloth9 2d ago

Fuck it. At least it’s fun.

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u/Marwheel 2d ago

That is just plain ugly. A epic clash of building styles in one building.

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u/80HDTV5 2d ago

Honestly, good for them. Live your silly ass dreams.

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u/Gman777 2d ago

I’ve never seen delusions of grandeur done so literally. 😂

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u/Due_Adeptness_1964 2d ago

So if you zoom in you can see the dude even added canons on both sides…this attention to detail is second to none! lol

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u/ilovenoodles12 2d ago

Is this real

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u/Creehair84 2d ago

Hey Edmonton is saying hi there!

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u/Same_Structure_4184 2d ago

Ain’t no way that’s permitted

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u/wilsonway1955 2d ago

It's so bad It's awesome!!! Lol.

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u/beigesalad 2d ago

Mars Cheese Castle looking ass

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u/Gloomy_End_6496 1d ago

I am disappointed that there aren't pictures of the inside.

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u/oldman-1969 1d ago

This is why people with money in the bank shouldnt smoke crack and talk design

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u/Ok-Whereas-81 1d ago

This may be the MOST McMansion home in America dear lord

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u/Napervillian 1d ago

This is why HOA’s exist.

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u/jcouldbedead 1d ago

good for him

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u/Soft_Experience_1312 1d ago

This is the worst so far

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u/West_Abbreviations53 1d ago

oh idk, why not!!! 🤩 we’re truly all just big kids

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u/Worth_Ad5850 1d ago

My eyes!!

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u/Long_Diamond_5971 22h ago

This made me cough.

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u/Thatwasachoice01 21h ago

Fuck yeah! These bitches know how to party😂

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u/bp8375 20h ago

In their defense, it looked great on paper.

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u/Delicious_Adeptness9 14h ago

their local Medieval Times must have had a liquidation sale

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u/streaker1369 14h ago

FFS people! This is how we end up with HOAs 🙄

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u/PeaceABC123 12m ago

That looks suuuper safe and up to code. /s

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u/caddy77040 3d ago

Repost like 609 times

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u/smittenkittensbitten 3d ago

Really? Because I frequent this sub and this is the first time I’ve ever seen this monstrosity of uglyfuckness 🤣🤣🤣

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u/ReluctantPhoenician 3d ago

I've only seen it once before and it was definitely not this year.

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u/amahenry22 3d ago

Stop it!!!!

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u/SmoovCatto 3d ago

looks like munch's "the scream", or mccauley culkin in "home alone", or the front grill and headlights of a 1950s cadillac, or . . .

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u/ReluctantZaddy 3d ago

That “added on” look

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u/melanie162 3d ago

No way! Why????